New tool assessing symptoms of long COVID was developed with help from patients

Researchers in the United Kingdom developed a novel tool they said can assess the symptoms of long COVID and help deliver clinical care.
With input from patients, Sarah E. Hughes, PhD, MHSc, and colleagues created the Symptom Burden Questionnaire for Long COVID (SBQ-LC) to fill the need for a comprehensive, patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) that is specific to long COVID, Hughes said.
“When reviewing existing measures, individuals living with long COVID told us that these PROMs did not fully capture their lived experience,” Hughes, a research fellow in the Centre for

Researchers in the United Kingdom developed a novel tool they said can assess the symptoms of long COVID and help deliver clinical care.
With input from patients, Sarah E. Hughes, PhD, MHSc, and colleagues created the Symptom Burden Questionnaire for Long COVID (SBQ-LC) to fill the need for a comprehensive, patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) that is specific to long COVID, Hughes said.
“When reviewing existing measures, individuals living with long COVID told us that these PROMs did not fully capture their lived experience,” Hughes, a research fellow in the Centre for